Enter Your PSEUDONYM:         

Question 1:    What is a Computer?

                         A mechanical calculation device
                          A system of input, processing, output, storage, and control components
                          An electronic and digital device
                          A and B
                          B and C

Question 2:   If I had 1 bit, how many messages could I convey?

                         1
                          2
                          3
                          6
                          8

IQuestion 3:    What is a byte?

                         8 bits
                          The basic addressable unit in RAM
                          1 bit raised to the 4th
                          A and B
                          All of the above

Question 4:    A gigabyte (GB) is used to express which one of the following approximate measures?

                         1,000 bytes of storage
                          1,000,000 bytes of storage
                          1,000,000,000 bytes of storage
                          1,000,000,000,000 bytes of storage
                          1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of storage

Question 5:    Which of the following was NOT funded by The Department of War?

                         The ABC Machine
                          ENIAC
                          MIT 3
                          MARK I
                          None of the above

Question 6:    The driving technology of first generation computers was:

                         punch cards
                          transistors
                          vacuum tubes
                          integrated circuits
                          magnetic core

Question 7:    The driving technology of second generation computers was

                         punch cards
                          transistors
                          vacuum tubes
                          integrated circuits
                          magnetic core

Question 8:    In the third generation of computers, there were three classes of computers. They were:

                         microcomputers, mainstream computers, supercomputers
                          minicomputers, maxicomputers, supercomputers
                          minicomputers, mainframe computers, supercomputers
                          microcomputers, minicomputers, mainframe computers
                          microcomputers, mainframe computers, supercomputers

Question 9:    The first PC was introduced in the 4th generation. It was:

                         The Atari
                          The Apple I
                          The Altair
                          The IBM PC
                          The Osborne

Question 10:  Which one of the following statements would best describe a workstation computer?

                         Support applications with heavy mathematical computing and graphics display demands such as computer-aided design (CAD).
                          Used to coordinate telecommunications and resource sharing in small local area networks (LANs) and Internet and intranet web sites.
                          Designed for convenient mobile communications and computing using touch screens
                          All of the above apply
                          None of the above

Question 11:  Which of the following is an example of an Information Appliance

                         cell phone
                          PDA
                          PC
                          A and B
                          B and C

Question 12:  Pen-based computing technologies are most commonly found in which of the following computers?

                         Personal computers
                          Client/server computers
                          Personal digital assistants
                          Network computers
                          Supercomputers

 Question 13:  What is the central processing unit?

                         The component in a digital computer that uses electrical signals to direct instruction execution.
                          The component in a digital computer that executes all arithmetic and logical operations
                          The component in a digital computer that interprets computer program instructions and processes data
                          The component in a digital computer that temporarily stores instructions or data
                          The component in a digital computer that retrieves instructions or data from secondary storage for processing

Question 14:  What is the arithmetic-logic unit?

                         The component in a digital computer that uses electrical signals to direct instruction execution.
                          The component in a digital computer that executes all arithmetic and logical operations
                          The component in a digital computer that interprets computer program instructions and processes data
                          The component in a digital computer that temporarily stores instructions or data
                          The component in a digital computer that retrieves instructions or data from secondary storage for processing

 Question 15:  What is a microsecond?

                         1 thousandth of a second
                          1 millionth of a second
                          1 billionth of a second
                          1 trillionth of a second
                          1 quadrillionth of a second

Question 16:  What is a kilohertz?

                         Thousands of cycles/second
                          Millions of cycles/second
                          Billions of cycles/second
                          Trillions of cycles/second
                          None of the above

 Question 17:  Which one of the following printing devices uses an electrostatic process similar to a photocopying machine in order to produce a high quality printed form?

                         Inkjet printers
                          Laser printers
                          Dot-matrix printers
                          Bubble jet printers
                          Impact printers

 Question 18:  Which one of the following would NOT fit the typical classification of a computer peripheral?

                         Monitors and printers
                          Scanners and hard disk drives
                          CD-ROM drives and backup systems
                          Central processing unit
                          All of the above classify as computer peripherals

Question 19:  Which one of the following devices would be considered a typical sequential access medium?

                         Magnetic tape
                          Magnetic floppy disk
                          Magnetic hard disk
                          CD-ROM
                          Semiconductor Memory

Question 20:  What is firmware?

                         Frequently used programs which are permanently burned into ROM during manufacture
                          Software which resides on a CD and monitors firm functioning
                          Propriety CD-ROMS which contain data about a firm
                          A and B
                          A and C